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Sunday, October 20, 2013

Do You Want to Get Well?

In John 5:1-6 Jesus confronts us with the question Are you sick? Sometime later, Jesus went up to
Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals.2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a
pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesdaand which is surrounded by five
covered colonnades.3 Here
a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the
paralyzed.5 One
who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.6 When Jesus saw him lying
there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked
him, “Do you want to get well?”

We need to admit and ask for the Lord's healing touch. James 5:13-16
instructs us on how get well.

13 Is anyone among you in
trouble? Let them pray. Is anyone happy? Let them sing songs of praise.14 Is anyone among you sick?
Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with
oil in the name of the Lord.15 And the prayer offered in faith will make the
sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will
be forgiven.16 Therefore
confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.
The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.